Word: pick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Changed Spots. Then the ward leaders got a surprise in turn-they were not asked to pick the new faces. Meade asked Philadelphia's bankers, lawyers, doctors and the biggest businessmen in town to help him with his selections, got four candidates of almost unbelievable political purity. The machine found itself running an investment banker and economist for controller, a professor of medicine for coroner, a wealthy meat packer for treasurer, a prominent lawyer for register of wills...
...college to pick, parents have no particular favorite. Harvard leads the men's list, but with only 3.5%. Vassar (2%) is tops for women. Sixty percent want their daughters to go to coed schools, and 58% favor the same for their sons. By two to one, U.S. parents prefer schools where their children will have a chance to join fraternities and sororities...
...that the "overall picture appears to be one of sustained underlying demand." According to the Department's Survey of Current Business, the slump came largely because businessmen satisfied the demand for goods out of inventories, instead of from new production. When inventories are depleted, production will have to pick up; and so long as demand stays as high as it was at midyear, said the Survey, the slump will be only a "temporary" affair...
When the weekly New Mexican was founded in 1849 in Santa Fe, at the southwest end of the Santa Fe trail, the editors decided it was politic to pick as few quarrels as possible. In brawling Santa Fe, arguments were usually won by the man who was first on the draw. So the New Mexican's first two-page issue carried a "let's-be-friends" note: "The New Mexican, in Politics and Religion, will maintain a strict neutrality, regarding partisanship as utterly unnecessary and a barrier to the general good...
Less than a year ago, Redwater, Alta., 35 miles northeast of Edmonton, was a place to pick blueberries. Last week it was the center of the biggest oil boom in Canadian history...